Open access for authors at eligible German institutions
Publish open access with Wiley
The agreement between Projekt DEAL institutions and Wiley is part of a nationally coordinated strategy to enable a large scale transition of today's scholarly journals to open access. As of 2019, researchers from Projekt DEAL institutions can now read all Wiley journals and publish their own primary research and review articles open access, retaining copyright of their works.
Wiley will not charge fees to authors covered by the agreement. The Publish and Read (PAR) fees and Gold Open Access APCs related to the agreement* will be paid centrally via institutions.
*Some institutional funding policies may differ for gold OA APCs. Please check with your library for any exceptions.
To be eligible:
- You must publish open access in one of Wiley's fully open access journals or a subscription journal that offers OnlineOpen (hybrid journal)
- If you publish in a subscription journal that offers OnlineOpen, you must choose to order OnlineOpen at the point of acceptance by using our order workflow as described below1
- Your manuscript must have been accepted on or after 22 January 2019 in the case of fully open access journals and on or after 1 July 2019, in the case of hybrid journals
- You must be the responsible corresponding author and affiliated with a publicly or privately funded German research institution entitled under Projekt DEAL at the point of acceptance2
- You must select your institution affiliation during the submission process (if you encounter any difficulties with this step, please contact your local librarian)
- The affiliation you select during submission must be stated on the published paper
- All primary research and review articles qualify3
- Wiley Open Access Accounts cannot be used to cover additional charges (e.g. cover, color, and page charges), which individual journals administer separately.
Why publish open access?
| High Visibility |
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| Articles are made freely available |
| Easy Compliance |
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| Meet open access mandates automatically |
| Copyright Retention |
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| Under a Creative Commons license |
| Automatic Deposit |
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| To PMC for appropriate articles |
How to publish your article open access
Eligible authors may publish open access in one of two ways:
Publish in any of Wiley's fully gold Open Access journals (manuscript accepted on or after 22 Jan 2019) (View journal list) and follow the instructions in the PDF below.
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Publish in any of Wiley’s hybrid journals that offer OnlineOpen (manuscript accepted on or after 1 July 2019) (View journal list) and follow the instructions in the PDF below.
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To check the open access availability for a specific journal, use our Author Compliance Tool.
Questions:
Please contact your university or library with questions.
1If you don't order OnlineOpen initially, your manuscript will be published under the traditional closed access model. You may order OnlineOpen retroactively, but once your paper is published in Early View or In Issue online you are no longer eligible to publish OnlineOpen at no charge
2If you are no longer affiliated with an eligible German institution at the point of acceptance of your paper, you do not qualify.
3Other article types e.g. letters, editorials etc. are excluded.